Organization: The Create Initiative

Year of publication: 2020

Type of green infrastructure: All, Parks

Summary: Public investments in parks and green infrastructure have historically created wealth for some communities while extracting wealth from others. Displacement is one manifestation of this extraction. Legacies of displacement have disproportionately impacted Indigenous communities, communities of color, and low-income and working-class communities. At the same time, communities that have been underserved by urban greening also bear a disproportionate burden of environmental harms through degraded air and water quality, poorly maintained infrastructure, and lack of access to urban nature.

Sharing in the Benefits of a Greening City is a toolkit that comes out of the question: What does it look like to envision green spaces as sites through which to build a more equitable and just world?

Link: sharing_in_the_benefits_of_a_greening_city_-_final_web.pdf 2 MB